- From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:10:48 -0400
- To: www-math@w3.org
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This construction is baroque, grotesque, and insecure. It is simply
unwise to allow an arbitary content provider to have this level of
control over a user agent.
Moreover, it presents challenges for public sector content providers
who by law cannot allow the impression of being unduly influenced by
particular market participants.
I hope we can persuade the purveyors of user agents offering such
constructions to join with others in providing a better approach that
is both secure and inter-operably meaningful.
-- Bill
Received on Wednesday, 11 October 2006 20:12:10 UTC